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No Guitar Is Safe

183 | Grace Slick Talks Guitar!

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 β€’ 857 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ain't no interview like a GRACE SLICK interview! That's right β€” the outspoken Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and the voice of the psychedelic rock generation and beyond is on the show. Whether she's talking about the playing of great guitar players she has known (everyone from her legendary Airplane/Starship bandmates to other heroes, including Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia) or tackling any other subject under the sun β€” sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; ’60s counterculture; DeLoreans; Miles Davis; ’80s pop culture; hilarious drummer antics (yes, your ears are burning, Donny Baldwin) β€” Grace is gloriously unfiltered and a true musical treasure. As guitarist of Jefferson Starship since 2012, I was thrilled to finally dive deep into these topics and more with Grace, who β€” along with her and Paul Kantner's daughter, China Kantner Isler β€” I've been lucky enough to call a friend for a decade now. Please help me thank GUITAR PLAYER and guitarplayer.com for making this episode happen. GUITAR PLAYER: Play better, sound better. β€” Jude Gold | Host/creator, NO GUITAR IS SAFE podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, we're about to dive deep. But you know what? No topic is off limits when you're talking

0:16.9

with Grace Slick, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson

0:22.0

Starship, Starship. Yes, all those hit songs that are part of our culture from White Rabbit

0:27.3

and somebody to love.

0:28.5

Don't you want somebody to love? Don't you need somebody to love? All the way on up through,

0:36.7

nothing's going to stop us now and for better or worse we built

0:40.3

this city she and I will debate that one a little bit well you might be surprised which side of each of us are on

0:46.9

it's just such a deep hang and it's brought to you by guitar player and guitar player dot com

0:53.0

visit guitar player.com and you will become a better

0:56.9

player and you will sound better as well. Thank you, Guitar Player. So yeah, everything from

1:02.6

arrests to sex, drugs, rock and roll, World War II, on up to the present. It's an adventurous

1:10.6

conversation with Grace. If you're new to the show,

1:13.9

normally I meet with a famous guitar player and we both have guitars and we're in the same room.

1:20.4

And we jam and they show me how they created their sound and their music. But today, well,

1:26.8

having the opportunity to do a quick phoneer, not that quick actually,

1:30.6

man, over an hour, really deep hang.

1:33.0

With this legendary icon of psychedelic rock and beyond, Grace Slick, I certainly couldn't turn

1:39.6

that down because she's seen it all.

1:42.6

We'll start off with her favorite guitar piece of all time, or at least one of them, but probably her favorite.

1:49.8

And, of course, we'll talk about all the different guitar players she's worked with from Craig Chikiso to Yorma, Yorama Kalkinin, to all the people she's gotten to interact with and share the stage with or share the bill with, such as Jimmy Hendrix

2:02.6

and The Who, et cetera, as well as celebrate her longtime bandmates such as Paul Cantner, founder

2:09.1

of Jefferson Starship. And when I joined the band in 2012, long after Grace had basically

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